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hgneng/ekho

Chinese text-to-speech engine observed · 2026-09-03

github.com/hgneng/ekho · Lex · GPL-2.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-09-03

Health v2 · maintenance only

68/100

  • Activity 100
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3794
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1211 stars · 266 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Ekho is an open-source Chinese text-to-speech engine supporting Mandarin, Cantonese, and Tibetan, part of the eGuideDog accessibility project. It converts written Chinese text into spoken audio using recorded voice data and can be extended with custom voices.

Use cases

  • convert Chinese text to speech
  • Cantonese text-to-speech synthesis
  • Tibetan TTS engine
  • screen reader speech for visually impaired Chinese users
  • create a custom TTS voice
  • offline Chinese speech synthesis

When to choose

  • you need offline Chinese, Cantonese, or Tibetan speech synthesis
  • you want a free GPL-licensed TTS for accessibility applications
  • you need to build custom voice data for Chinese TTS

When to avoid

  • you need natural-sounding neural TTS voices
  • you need non-Chinese language support
  • you need a managed cloud TTS API

Facets

library · maturity active

tts speech-recognition audio-processing speech-processing accessibility cross-platform cli chinese-tts cantonese tibetan eguidedog offline-tts natural-language-processing localization linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
hgneng/ekhomain68

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